His career was clouded by controversies and accusations of cheating, including stealing bases, but this was not unusual at the time. When he was sold to the Boston Beaneaters in 1886 it was for a record $10,000 and became known as the "$10,000 Beauty" and King Kelly. He paid for 16 seasons mostly with the Chicago White Stockings and the Boston Beaneaters. Mike "King" Kelly (1857-1894) was one of the outstanding baseball players and managers of the 19th century and he is included in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Their initial flights met with press skepticism over the following years until they gave public demonstrations in France and the USA (1908).
The number of experiments they completed in four years was staggering and they applied for a patent for a “flying machine” (March, 23, 1903) and they made successful flights in December of the same year. Experimenting with kites, gliders, and approximately 200 wing shapes they refined their tests. In 1899 they commenced aeronautical experiments into controlled flight. The 1890s was a booming period for bicycles but also the popular interest in the possibility of flight had captured popular interest with the glides of the ill-fated Otto Lilienthal in Germany. The two brothers, who never finished high school, but showed experimental skills designing a printing press and publishing a number of local papers before opening a cycle sales and repair shop (1892) and then manufacturing their own bicycles (1896). Orville (1871-1948) and Wilbur (1867-1912), widely known as the Wright Brothers, are credited with the invention of the first successful airplane capable of making a controlled heavier-than-air human flight. Although much parodied the painting is one of the most famous of American art. In 1930 his work “American Gothic” with country folk steadfast in front of a Carpenter Gothic architectural style house and on first viewing shows grim-faced Iowans. His subjects combined the rustic elements of pitchforks, overalls or an apron trimmed with rick-rack but stylistically the hard edges were influenced by Renaissance painting. With his strong ties to the rural American physical and social landscape he wore overalls as a statement about his earthy Midwest roots but the truth is more complex than this given his exposure to European art during his travels. In 1934 he joined the staff of the University of Iowa. In the 1920s he traveled to Europe periodically and in 1923 he enrolled at the Académie Julian in Paris. He studied at the Minneapolis School of Design and Handicraft (1910-1911) and for short periods at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Grant Wood (1891-1942) was an American painter, print maker and exponent of Regionalism. In the case of Ella Watson the story included a history of how her father had been lynched, her husband accidentally killed by gunfire, sickness within her family and illegitimate children. The captions that accompany the photographs of Ella Watson and the memories of Gordon Parks and the family of Ella Watson highlight that a single photograph is a part of a complex back story.
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It is the series that show her Grant Wood style mop-in-hand posed in front of a large American flag that became an icon due to its visual strength.
Gordon Parks took photographs of her at work, at home and in her social activities. Parks had been seeking ways of how a camera could be used to expose intolerance and the ever-shrewd Stryker suggested that she would be a good subject. when Roy Stryker of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) suggested that Gordon Parks should photograph her. In 1942 Ella Watson was working as a charwoman in a US Government building in Washington D.C. A biography of Ella Watson within the context of photography is only partly about her as a person and more about her as a symbol of the American working woman.
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